“These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.”
“I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.”
“People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life...”
“There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.”
“...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.”
“The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.”