Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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.

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

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

In literature imitations do not imitate.