"The nation that has no gods at all not only dies, but what is more, is bored to death."

I have very little doubt myself that, somehow or other, an inspiring and compelling creed will return to our country, because religion is really a need, like fires in winter: where there is no vision, the people perish, and perish of cold. The nation that has no gods at all not only dies, but what is more, is bored to death.

-January 9, 1909, Illustrated London News