Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.