If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.