The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.