No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.