“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”
Benjamin Franklin
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“Necessity never made a good bargain”