Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.