Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Television is a young person's medium.

Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.