A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.