It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.