Who is my brother? I’ll tell you—he is the one who recognizes the good in me.

Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed—there is so little competition!

When a woman works, she gets a woman’s wage; but when she sins, she gets a man’s pay—and then some ❦

Life without absorbing occupation is hell—joy consists in forgetting life ❦

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If you want work well done, select a busy man—the other kind has no time.

Mind your own business, and thus give other folks an opportunity to mind theirs ❦ ❦

The outcome of the battle is of no importance—but, how did you fight? ❦