Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both