Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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