I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
