A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.