I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.