That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.