Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.