Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.