It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

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.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.