When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.