But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

No lady is ever a gentleman.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?