You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction