Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

Honor lies in honest toil.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.