Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.