The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
What I wouldn’t give to be seventy again!
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one’s way of taking a fact.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
What a new face courage puts on everything. – Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.
It is never very crowded at the front.
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.