We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.