A concept is stronger than a fact.

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.