I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!