He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.