The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.