I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the...
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act...
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV...
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely...
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with...
If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.
In matters of truth and justice there is no difference between large and...
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in...
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.