Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

There are no friends at cards or world politics