To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

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

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

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