Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

There is no friendship in trade.

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Pray to God, pretending as God is only yours.

There are some things even magic can’t fix.

The right things often happen for the wrong reason.

Distress leads to dimness.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

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