Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.