The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?