Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.