Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.