Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.