I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened