Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Under the attempt to perform the impossible, there sets a general disintegration

There’s more, much more, to Christmas than candlelight and cheer. It’s the spirit of sweet friendship that brightens all year. It’s thoughtfulness and kindness. It’s hope reborn again, for peace, for understanding, and for goodwill to men

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied

We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.