All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.