All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Trust one who has gone through it.

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.