The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.