Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.