I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.