One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.