A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don�t write about Man, write about 'a' man.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.