A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.