Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.