Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility