The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.