I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.