I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.