I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .
Never tell a lie-except for practice.