An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

A form of self-delusion.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.