"Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.

If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

"Then learn to make your treasure work for you. Make it your slave. Make its children and its children's children work for you.

That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having.

"Gold is reserved for those who know its laws and abide by them."

'Have I the soul of a slave or the soul of a free man?'

"In this tale we see how good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity,"