Too much truth is uncouth.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

The best bet you get is an even break.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.