I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.