A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.