Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

We are all alike, on the inside.