Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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?

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.