“It may be those who do most, dream most.”
“The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.”
“I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.”
“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.”
“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”
“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.”
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
“Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”
“The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.”
“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”
“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”