There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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.