There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.