The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.