You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.