"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it."

"The perfect host requires the perfect parasite."

"Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?"

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."

"Awake, arise, or be forever fall'n."