Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.