An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Only love can keep anyone alive.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

In fact, I am never wrong.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.