Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.