Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

We have the best government that money can buy.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.