The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.