To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

I was at the foot of my class.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

When you become quiet, it just dawns on you