When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.