Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.

To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie.

If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.