“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”

“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”