The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.