How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.