It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

If the race is good, so is the place.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.