It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.