
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.”
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“Say the report was an exaggeration.”
—How he told a reporter, who told him that he had been reported dead, to reply to the report
“The man who can read and does not has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”