The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
One's nativity is not of his own choosing but whatever it may be it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
If there ever was a militant religion it was that of early New England.
A man who envies our family is a man who needs...
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty...
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I...
