No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.