Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.