When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.