“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”

“How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!”

“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.”

“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”