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21 " You be good. That's your business. The rest, leave to God. That's his business. "
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22 " Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions. "
― Richard Hofstadter , Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
23 " Business is religion and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character. "
24 " A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life. "
25 " Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. "
26 " The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. "
27 " No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. "
