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.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.