...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth