Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…