A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.