More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

To stand still is to fall behind.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.