"A system-grinder hates the truth...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”

“The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.”

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”

“The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.”

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

“The separate parts make no carriage.”

“Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive”

“If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.”