To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

A thought will color a world for us.

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.