The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.