You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.