There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

They come transfigured back, Secure from change in their high-hearted ways, Beautiful evermore, and with the rays Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation!

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vau…

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

Hold their noses to the grindstone.