“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”

“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry”

“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”

“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil”

“A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world”