“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself”

“Character is power”

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age”

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race ”