English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.