Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side