Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.