Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of...

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them...

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and...

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.