The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.