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

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.