All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

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.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.