There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.