Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.