Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.