"I have always been a great admirer of the proverb, 'Necessity is the mother of invention'."

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"I am not fond of giving advice, but when I do, I expect it to be taken."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."