The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.