Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

No one lends his entire fortune, not even to his best friend

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth and the desirable things for which it stands. To secure wealth quickly youth often borrows unwisely

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.