If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.