However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.