"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office."

"Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation."

"Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance."

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."

"Elegance is refusal."

"Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can."