Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

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

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.