Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.