Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.