Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.