The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.