The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.