Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.