Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

Say your heart out.. work that dream out.. for the time won't be back again.

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.