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

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

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

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

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

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.