“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”

“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.”

“I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.”

“Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.”

“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”

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