You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.