A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse – not a remarkable mathematician.
When I buy stock, I think of it in terms of buying a whole company just as if I were buying a store down the street. If I were buying the store, I'd want to know all about it.
So smile when you read a headline that says 'Investors lose as market falls.' Edit it in your mind to 'Disinvestors lose as market falls – but investors gain.' Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: 'Every putt makes someone happy.')
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.
Haste makes Waste.
He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.
A friend in need is a friend indeed!