When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.