In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.
To be gentle is the test of a lady.
Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.