America is a young country with an old mentality.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.