It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.