 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. |
| There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. |
| You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. |
| Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. |
| Beware how you take away hope from any human being. |
| A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. |
| On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. |
| The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. |
| The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. |
| A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. |
| People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. |
| To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. |
| Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
| Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. |
| The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. |
| Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. |
| I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. |
| As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. |
| Carve every word before you let it fall. |
| A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. |
