Isaac D'Israeli

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.