Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.