There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.