“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
“To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”
“Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?”
“I want to get rich through hard work... As long as it is not mine!”
“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.”
“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ”