Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.