No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.