I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

When you're through changing you're through.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.