In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.