A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.