Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.