Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.