Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Adam was the only man who, when saying a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

He is rich who owes nothing