Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.