"Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"

"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better"

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"