"Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."

"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."

"What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."

"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York."