Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.