Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.