the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

Example is better than precept.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.