Genius is sorrow's child.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

When he talked politics, it was with me, or my sister, pointing a steady and patient finger at us, saying, "I don't care about left or right. It's all nonsense. All I ask of you is this: Be kind. Be decent. And don't be greedy.