I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.