It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.