"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor"

"Do what you do best, and you will succeed"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"The best mirror is an old friend"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"