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

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.