What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

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.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

To stand still is to fall behind.