I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.