You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.