Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.