The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.