"Business is more exciting than any game."

"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

"What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise."

"Debate is the death of conversation."

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself."

"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."