Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''

To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail

Some of the dirtiest dogs, past and present, had mothers

Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest

United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it