power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
the best of all good friends is pride.
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.