If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.