Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.