I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, stil

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.