The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.