"America is a tune. It must be sung together."

“There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.”

“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”

“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”

“Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.”

“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”

“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”