You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.