America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.