Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."