There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.