“The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.”

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!

Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

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

You have more people that love you than you know.

One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.

As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.

The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.

I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

All literature is protest.

All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.