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

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.