In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
Reason and right give the quickest despatch.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.
There is no one subsists by himself alone.