We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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.

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.