It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.