Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.

Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.

I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it

Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God, ' I declared in my journal. All through that year I abandoned myself intermittently to these deliriums.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

Attention is a precious commodity.

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need.

No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously.