I’m going along like an old man I used to know who used to start to tell a story about his grandfather.

We are here to celebrate one of the greatest events of American history, and not only in American history, but in the world’s history.

I met only one lady who had forgotten the land of her birth and glorified monarchical institutions.

The laws of England and America do take it away, do select but one class, the people who create the literature of the land.

I am an Essex band on this occasion, and I am going to get through as well as inexperience and good intentions will enable me.

I consider the Children’s Theatre, of which I am president, and the Post-Graduate Medical School as the two greatest institutions in the country.

I told him that I would still be a customer of his, and that I cherished no ill-feeling because of the incident—that would remain green in my memory.

Honesty is the best policy—when there is money in it. But truthfulness is one of the most dangerous—why, this man is misleading you.

“There is a man who wants to pay more taxes than he is charged.” Richard Watson Gilder did very well for a poet.

There is lots of that talent all over the country, but the trouble is they don’t develop it.

O consistency! consistency! thy name—I don’t know what thy name is—Thompson will do—any name will do—but you see there is the fact, there is the consistency.

Some think it is the one that is on the upper Mississippi, but the head quartermaster told me it was the one that killed Goliath.

Mr. Howells—that poem of his is admirable; that’s the way to treat a person.

You know the New England dinner is the great occasion on the other side of the water.

I suppose I must say “Good-bye.” I say it not with my lips only, but from the heart.

In a little biographical sketch of her I found that her last hours were spent partly in reading a book of mine, until she was no longer able to read

People here seem always to express distances by parables.

I never intend to stand up on a platform any more—unless by the request of a sheriff or something like that.

And, in the first place, I wish to thank the Countess de Rochambeau for the honor she has done me in presiding at this christening.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else.