I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.