Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.