Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.