Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Art is a delayed echo.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.