"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness...." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”

“If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.”

“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”

“There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money”

“Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.”

“When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.”

“Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.”

“What have future generations ever done for us?”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”