All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.