So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Remember that credit is money.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.