"It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

"From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune"