"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"The 100% American is 99% an idiot."

"What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married."

"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"Hope costs nothing."

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."

"The world loves to be deceived."

"The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later."

"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."