The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.