I Have Been Devoured All My Life

[on Austen Chamberlain:] He Is More Loyal To His Friends Than To His Convictions.

It Is Always Dangerous To Generalize, But The American People, While Infinitely Generous, Are A Hard And Strong Race And, But For The Few Cemeteries I Have Seen, I Am Inclined To Think They Never Die.

There Are Big Men, Men Of Intellect, Intellectual Men, Men Of Talent And Men Of Action; But The Great Man Is Difficult To Find, And It Needs --apart From Discernment --a Certain Greatness To Find Him.

The Capacity To Suffer Varies More Than Anything That I Have Observed In Human Nature.

Symbols Are The Imaginative Signposts Of Life.