The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.