We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.