God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.