No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.