Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?