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

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.

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.

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.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

A salary was not sufficient for me.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.