A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.