Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.