Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.