"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing."

"There cannot be friendship without equality."

"There is nothing that is personal and private, it is all universal. All that stuff we share but don't admit to, and don't talk about...what is that about?"

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."

"I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents."

"My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said."