Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.