He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.