Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.