Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.