[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.