Francis Quarles Quotes

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

The law is a horrible business.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

It's good tying the sack before it be full.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.

I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.