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

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.