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

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

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.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.