How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.