Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.