An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.