Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.