The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
It was wonderful to find America but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Be good and you will be lonely.