The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.