To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.