Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.