Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.