People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.