Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.