Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.