A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.