I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.