Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.