When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.