“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.”

“If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.”

“Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”

“You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”

“America should stand for more than just wealth.”

“Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.”

“All difficulties are easy when they are known.”

“Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.”

“What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.”

“Much rain wears the marble.”

“When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.”

“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.”

“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.”

“Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.”

“But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.”

“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I havebeen politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.”

“My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.”