My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.