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We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.