You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

All gods are better than their reputation.