To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.