"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

"It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."

"I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole."

"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude."

"It is not wealth that makes a nation, but the character of its people."