Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.