To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.