Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the truth.
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined ones.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
There isn’t a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.