If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.