Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.