The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.