Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.