Thanks are the highest form of thought.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.