Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.