They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

When in doubt tell the truth.

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.