Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.