We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.