"It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"