“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”

“Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.”

“Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.”

“A low wage business is always insecure.”

“Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.”

“Nor age so eat up my invention.”

“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”

“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”