To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion