The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.