I’ve striven my whole life for humility, but if I’d ever achieved it, I’d probably be pretty damn proud of that.
Genius is the ability to hold one’s vision steady until it becomes reality.
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
Hunger never saw bad bread.
The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.
An old man in a house is a good sign.
Pay what you owe and you’ll know what’s your own.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
When passion rules, she never rules wisely.