What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

The only object of liberty is life.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.