God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.