The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.