Occupation: Essayist Birth: August 24, 1872 Death: May 20, 1956
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul..
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity..
Most women are not as young as they are painted..
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving..
Pessimism does win us great happy moments..
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another..
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise..
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter..
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short..
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay..
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans..
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls..
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success..
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having di….
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt..
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk..
Only the insane take themselves seriously..
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions..
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs..
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men..