The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.