You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.