- October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. »
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. »
- [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. »
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. »
- Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. »
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. »
- Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. »
- Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. »
- When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. »
- The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. »
- There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator »
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