It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.