Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.