Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.