As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

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

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

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 same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man’s spirit, embitter another’s.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

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.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

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