True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

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

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.