How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.