Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.