“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”

“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.”

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”

“Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.”

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”