Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair LewisOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Sinclair LewisIn 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.
Sinclair LewisUpon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.
Sinclair Lewis