nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.