My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

There are two types of poor people those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor the others are rich people out of luck.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead you are made for life.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

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