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.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.