Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.