"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible."

"Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system."

"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster."

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."