I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.