“If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste”

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”

“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”

“The income tax has made more liars out of more Americans than golf has.”

“When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance”