There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

A business based on brand is, very simply, a business primed for success.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Don't worry. I'm only your escort tonight. I would offer to protect you from the drunken attentions of the other men, but I know all too well that you're quite capagble of holding your own.

There are more copies than originals among people.

Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.