In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.