You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.