I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.