Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.