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

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

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 who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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