We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation |
We had reports of 8 to 10 inches on the Outer Banks and 4 to 6 inches in coastal counties, |
We have been very clear with investors. As long as the Fed is tightening, our cost of funds is going to go up. As a result, our spreads are going to go down, |
We learn not in the school, but in life |
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion |
We never reflect on how pleasant it is to ask for nothing |
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. |
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. |
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. |
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. |
Wealth falls on some men as a copper down a drain |
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. |
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. |
What is true belongs to me! |
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him |