Hunger makes a fool of a man.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.