A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

There nearly always is a method in madness.