Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that’s the essense of inhumanity.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Martyrdom… is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.