The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.