"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."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

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

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him."

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

"Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different."

"Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive."