When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.