Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts