"Lend money to an enemy, and thou..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.”

“Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.”

“An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.”

“When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.”

“A light purse is a heavy curse.”

“In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.”

“Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.”

“Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy”

“Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.”