One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.