Flattery is the best persuader of people.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.