There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.