It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.