"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"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"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"