To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.