A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.