The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.