For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?

I think his [Donald's Trump] objection would be to biased and unfair, which is not the way he characterize "Fox News" to me, anyway. But we're all looking for objective coverage.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

Today is the most important day of our lives.