New York Times

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.