Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.