We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

The cliche is dead poetry.

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

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

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.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.