The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man