The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.