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.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.