“Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.”

“A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.”

“Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others”

“All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”

“Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”

“I am declinedInto the vale of years.”

“What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?”

“My way of lifeIs fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.”