Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.