Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

When congress is in session no American is safe.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.