When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.