To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.