There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.