“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.