It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

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

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.