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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.