The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.