Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.