A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.