No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'