The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities