Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.