Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Every decision you make is a mistake.
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.