Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?