“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”

“Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”