Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever