Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.