We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.