Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.