One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.