It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.