Quote #5432
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
Quote #10009
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
Quote #5065
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting...
Quote #10233
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them,...
Quote #12443
Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.
Quote #16017
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of “civilized warfare.”
Quote #12644
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never...
Quote #9638
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Quote #28582
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as...
Quote #32119
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream...