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

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

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.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!