Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.