“You must not think sir to catch old birds with chaff.”

“Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.”

“Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

“The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.”

“Man appoints and God disappoints.”

“Every man is the son of his own works.”

“I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.”

“Gold is the corpse of value...”

“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”

“Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you fee...”

“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

“Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”