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

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

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

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.