“Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.”

“I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”

“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”

“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”

“In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.”

“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me … Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”