People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.