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

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.

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

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.