The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.