But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.