We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?