That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.