How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.
Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.