Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.