The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.