I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.