Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.