“Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.”

“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.”

“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”

“You must look into people as well as at them.”

“Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.”

“When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.”

“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.”

“Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessa...”

“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the cap...”