The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.