There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.