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.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.