“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”