"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!"

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples."

"There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose - because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist."

"No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."

"The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment."

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

"Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse."

"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly."