An honest politician is an oxymoron.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.