I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.