All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.