Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

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.