A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.
Whatever is natural admits of variety.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
The entire social order. . . is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.
God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.
There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.