Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.