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

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

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.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.