Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.