“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”
The Talented Tenth http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=174, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)
“You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/12/02/23-quotes-from-warren-buffett-on-life-and-generosity/ "23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity" forbes.com (02 December 2013)
Quotes from the press
Maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, reported in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (March 4, 1923); Congressional Record (March 4, 1923), vol. 64, p. 5714.
"A Word to the Wise Guy"
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)
Hays translation
V, 37
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book V
