Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.