Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.