Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.