The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.