The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.