The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.