Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.