The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.