Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.