The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.