I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.