Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

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

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

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.