Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.