"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."

"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters..."

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."