I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.