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

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.