It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.