“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”