Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.