You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.