If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.