Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

No profit grows where is no pleasure taken; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

The man who dies rich ... dies disgraced.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Envy s a sharper spur than pay.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.