Reform is born of need, not pity.

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.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.