There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.