One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.