Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.