Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life that you were created to live.

While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life.

Logic will save you when nothing else will.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Life is all business.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.

Meeting specifications is not enough.