Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.