If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.