Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.