Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.