Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.