Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

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.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.