Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.