Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.