What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.