Weak people can be very stubborn.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.