We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.