Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.