Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any .

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it .