"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

"There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey."

"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."

"It is better to think too much, than to think too little"

"I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking."

"On his examination paper a boy wrote, 'A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help."

"There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court."

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

"Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do."