The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

There is nothing stable in the world, uproar's your only music.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.