Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

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Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.