Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
Even in despair, man must laugh.
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. . . in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.
Yesterday is just a memory.
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.