“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..”

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”

“Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible...”

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they are ungrateful; more often the benefactor rates his favors higher than their worth; and often too he does not allow for circumstances. If few men have the moral force to resist impulses, most men do carry within themselves the germs of virtues as well as of vices, of heroism as well as of cowardice. Such is human nature — education and circumstances do the rest.”