Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Life is short, break the rules.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.