Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.