In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

To be gentle is the test of a lady.