I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.