The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Character is that which can do without success.