America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.