Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.