Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.