He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?