The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.