Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.