A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

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

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

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

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.