Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.