America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends, they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

No memory is ever alone, it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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