It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.