The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

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 true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.