The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.