I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.