We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.