Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Accomplish something every day of your life.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

Falling in love with you was not happenstance

Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it.

Lark: "You shouldn't yell at

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.