America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.