Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.