Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.