A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

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.