A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people read more

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but read more

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have read more

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Bear one another's burdens.

Bear one another's burdens.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

You are not in business to be popular.

You are not in business to be popular.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than read more

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.