Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.