Quick success can be achieved in a year or two, but nearly all great tycoons have continued their building much longer. In dealing with their own problems, faculty members are the world's most extreme conservatives. In dealing with other people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals. Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise. There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
Poverty wants some things, luxury many things, avarice all things.
Keep yourself from the opportunity, and God will keep you from sin. A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun shines. Manufacturers' spec sheets will be incorrect by a factor of 0.5 or 2.0, depending on which multiplier gives the most optimistic value. For salesmen's claims, these factors will be 0.1 or 10.0. Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.