Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.