Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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. . . .

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.