The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.