Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.