“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues”

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age”

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race ”

“Character is power”