I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.