We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.