The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

Humility is the mother of giants.