If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

I risked much, but I made much.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.