Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.