"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."

"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."

"If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue."

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing."

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most."

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines."

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future."

"Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it."

"Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit."

"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his."