Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.