Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.