To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.