When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.