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.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

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.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves.