To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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.

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.