Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.