To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.