But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

I think celebrities suck.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.