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

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

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

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.