All great truths begin as blasphemies.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.