The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

You may delay, but time will not.

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.