There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.