There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.