All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.