Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.