Business is the salt of life.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
We falsely attribute to men a determined character, putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support, it is worse than a large family, he is the silent poor indeed.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
Appearances matter – and remember to smile.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
