If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.