I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.