When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.