Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.