Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.