I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

All is race - there is no other truth.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."