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

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

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.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.