Success is best when it is shared.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.