The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory