Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Is it not absurd when a human being tries to find happiness somewhere outside himself, and thinks that wealth and birth and the influence of friends: is of the…

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.