The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.