A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.