Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

I am not an American. I am the American.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.