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.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.