The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.