A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.