...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

You cannot live without doing something.

Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.