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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.