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

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

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.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.