There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.