Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.