There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. |
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.'' |
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. |
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. |
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. |
There is no skeptic who does not feel that men have doubted before, but no man in love thinks that anyone has been in love before. |
They haven't got no noses, / The fallen sons of Eve. |
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. |
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. |
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet. |
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. |
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. |
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. |
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. |
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. |