Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.