The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.