The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.