It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.