There is no working middle course in wartime.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.