“Men are blind in their own cause.”
“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.”
“Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.”
“A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.”
“A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.”
“Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!”
“The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.”
“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”
“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”
“Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''”
“Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.”
“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.”
“Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.”
“Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.”