If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.