Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.