The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.