When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.