When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Some people look at the world and say ‘why?’ Some people look at the world and say ‘why not?’
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
Write your Good times in Stone.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Better never than late.
