If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.