The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.