When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

A wet dog is lovingest.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.