The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

There is no accounting for human beings.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.