We Know Our Friends By Their Defects

A Good Rule For Writers: Do Not Explain Overmuch.

Hypocrisy Is The Most Difficult And Nerve-racking Vice That Any Man Can Pursue; It Needs An Unceasing Vigilance And A Rare Detachment Of Spirit. It Cannot, Like Adultery Or Gluttony, Be Practiced At Spare Moments; It Is A Whole-time Job.

The Most Valuable Thing I Have Learned From Life Is To Regret Nothing.

It Is Unfair To Expect A Politician To Live In Private Up To The Statements He Makes In Public.

It Has Been Said That Good Prose Should Resemble The Conversation Of A Well-bred Man.