A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.