A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.