"...the fog is rising."

"Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you."

"In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost."

"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch."

"Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it."

"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention."

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."

"Why not have the rodeo clowns ride the bulls? After all, they know the bulls better, plus the bulls think they're funny."

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."

"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything."