The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.