A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.