He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.