You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.