Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.