“Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.”

“A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.”

“Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others”

“All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”

“Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”

“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”

“We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.”