We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Faith

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Humankind

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Literature

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Patriotism

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Survival

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.