The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.