More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

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.