There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.