It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.